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    Construction Materials and Their Properties

    Although dominated by a few major categories, a vast array of different raw materials and construction products enter the built environment as part of modern buildings, roads, and other infrastructure. Materia...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Generation

    CDD generation estimates have not historically received the same attention as other waste streams, such as MSW or hazardous waste. The mass of CDD materials resulting from an activity depends heavily on the ty...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Managing Disaster Debris

    The professional involved in CDD management and regulation will often deal with the management of CDD resulting from natural and human-induced disasters or be responsible for participating in disaster debris p...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    CDD Recycling Approaches and Policies

    This chapter explores common approaches employed by contractors and others to collect, separate, store, and transport CDD materials to an appropriate recycling facility or end market. Additional subjects in th...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Markets for Materials Recovered from CDD

    CDD recycling facility operators operate under the business model of charging a fee to accept debris loads, processing the debris to create as many saleable products as possible, and then providing these produ...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Introduction to Construction and Demolition Debris

    The universe of construction and demolition debris materials, sources, and management methods are introduced in this chapter. This chapter begins by providing an overview of the importance of understanding the...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    CDD Composition

    An understanding of CDD composition is important for several reasons. For one, a contractor can better plan for the management and potential recovery of debris components. Recycling facility operators can appr...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Hazardous and Dangerous Materials in CDD

    Multiple construction materials and articles used in buildings and other infrastructure inherently contain chemicals or minerals that under some management scenarios pose a potential risk to human health and t...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Sustainable Construction Materials Management

    Opportunities for recovery and recycling resources from CDD are now commonly practiced in many parts of the world, though challenging economics and market conditions persist. However, the importance of CDD man...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Processing CDD for Recycling

    Chapter 6 reviewed the various approaches for capturing CDD for recovery and diverting as much material as possible from landfill disposal. In some cases, homogenous CDD...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    CDD Landfills

    In this chapter, current science and technology related to the land disposal of CDD are introduced, with one objective to provide the reader with a sense of the potential environmental concerns that may result...

    Timothy G. Townsend, Malak Anshassi in Construction and Demolition Debris (2023)

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    Approximation of transient redox boundary conditions: its application to numerical analysis of iron plume migration near landfills

    An efficient scheme is presented that attempts to implement the moving boundary conditions in a two-dimensional finite difference analysis model that simulates reductive dissolution and subsequent precipitatio...

    Jaeshik Chung, Jae H. Chung, Timothy G. Townsend in Environmental Earth Sciences (2019)

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    Evaluation of mineral substrates for in situ iron removal from groundwater

    Calcium carbonate-based materials (CCBM) have been found to remove Fe(II) and other divalent metal cations from aqueous solution and thus have the potential for incorporation into remediation systems to remove...

    Yu Wang, Saraya Sikora, Hwidong Kim, Jean-Claude Bonzongo in Environmental Earth Sciences (2013)